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williakz
5 years agoDedicated Contributor
Help hardening my login passwords
OK, I'm FINALLY ready to go through my various logins and "harden" the current (original) passwords, ones that violate just about every 1Password rule in the book. Can someone please explain to me ju...
Former Member
5 years agoHey williakz .
If you are using Safari:
- Get to the "Change Password" form on the website.
- Let 1Password autofill the "Old/Current Password" field for you.
- Click the 1Password icon in your Safari's toolbar to open it, then click on the big "+Generate Password" button at its top.
- Adjust the new password as you see fit, then click on "Autofill". 1Password should autofill it into both fields. In case it didn't, repeat step 3 and this time click on "Copy", then paste the new password into both fields.
- If there's a "Save in 1Password" button showing up under the new password fields, click on it now and select to update your existing login with the new password. If there isn't such a button, send the form and 1Password should pop up, asking if you'd like to save or update this password - select the "Update" option.
If you come across a scenario in which you changed the password but 1Password did not ask you if you'd like to save/update it in Safari, you will find any and all generated passwords that were used in websites in your default vault for saving new logins, under the "Passwords" category, from which you can retrieve lost passwords that weren't saved.
If you are using any other browser that is not Safari:
- Get to the "Change Password" form on the website.
- Let 1Password autofill the "Old/Current Password" field for you.
- Click the 1Password extension icon in your browser's toolbar (usually in the top right corner, might be hiding inside a grey puzzle piece button).
- Click the big PLUS icon to reveal the menu, then select "Password Generator", which is the first option in the list.
- While in the generator, change the password's type from "Smart Password" to "Random Password" and adjust the recipe as you see fit. When you are happy with the recipe, you can also set it as a default so that 1Password will automatically suggest such passwords everywhere you go.
- Generate a password, then click the "Autofill" button. 1Password will try to autofill the new password in both "New/Confirm Password" fields and will bring up a prompt to save/update the existing login with the new password - confirm and update it, then send the form on the page.
- If 1Password was not able to fill both fields, you can grab the new password from your now-updated login item as it already contains the new password, and paste it into the field(s) it missed when you tried to autofill.
If you come across a scenario in which you couldn't save the new generated password and lost it, you can recover it from within the generator by clicking the "Generator History" button at the bottom of the generator.
In both cases (of Safari and other browsers), you can recover your old password(s) in case you need them like so: https://support.1password.com/item-history/